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Which extra room would you like in your house?

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Menopaws Sun 04-Feb-18 19:01:00

I've always wanted a utility/boot/dog room but have never had a house big enough. I've worked in many farms, country houses that had so many facilities and I was always jealous of their rooms, far more than the fancy bedrooms etc.What one room would you like if you could stick it onto where you live now?

Anniebach Mon 05-Feb-18 09:17:27

My bungalow is so small I haven't even room for a table and I would love a table

TwiceAsNice Mon 05-Feb-18 09:30:00

A second bedroom please. I'm only in a one bedroom flat. I bought it new but couldn't afford the extra money to stretch to one with 2 bedrooms unfortunately

harrigran Mon 05-Feb-18 09:47:47

I have all the rooms I could possibly need but I do not have a downstairs loo. When we altered the house I optd for a very large kitchen rather than a utility with toilet facilities. Would have been useful when GC were tiny.

lemongrove Mon 05-Feb-18 10:14:55

We all need to have a big win on the lottery to get the house of our dreams! ? (it would mean buying a ticket mind you.)

Singlegrannie Mon 05-Feb-18 10:20:33

A utility room, and the good news is that I had half of my garage converted into one just before Christmas, full access on same level as the kitchen and room for washer,dryer, freezer, fridge freezer and wall mounted vac !
I agree downstairs loos are important but not a problem as I love alone in a bungalow.

Christinefrance Mon 05-Feb-18 10:22:40

No horses Menopaws just dogs, cats, chicks and a sheep. We have been asked to take two rescue donkeys though. My husband is seriously considering it.smile

radicalnan Mon 05-Feb-18 10:23:20

A still room /pantry.

Yellowmellow Mon 05-Feb-18 10:26:40

Would also like a utility room.....and I'll also throw in a conservatory (not sure if that's classed as another room)...I have the romantic idea that it would be lovely to sit and have breakfast, or read in a conservatory! In reality I have been told conservatory's are quite hard to maintain...I work 4 full days per week....and at the moment wouldn't probably have time to have a leisurely breakfast, and reading is hit and miss with me depending how my week's going. we can dream!

Sheilasue Mon 05-Feb-18 10:29:58

We downsized to a 2bed flat from a 3bed house. Miss the extra toilet don’t realise till you move what a difference it made. Let a bedroom because gd lives with us.
Would have loved a utility room. When I watch escape to the country and there’s a utility room always envious.

pen50 Mon 05-Feb-18 10:33:15

I would like a Tardis to hold all my accumulated (and to be accumulated because I know myself) junk.

Nonnie Mon 05-Feb-18 10:41:30

Like AuntieFlo we have enough rooms but I doubt even Kirsty A could rejig to give me the coats cupboard I want in the hall and a walk in larder, just can't see how it could be done.

We had a dining room when we moved here and used it once as the table in the kitchen is almost as big. I am now sitting in that room as it has become my study. Big dining table gone to DS who uses it every day.

We are hoping to move this year but my 'must have' list is so big I wonder if we will find it all. Must have:

Coat cupboard
Walk in larder
Utility room
Downstairs loo
En-suite
Sunny, manageable garden
Quiet road
Walking distance to shops

Now all that would be a challenge for Kirsty and Phil.

Neilspurgeon0 Mon 05-Feb-18 10:43:34

A study again, had to give mine up when son returned home, as a bedroom for his daughter and I took up residence in the attic but it is always cold and the damn cat comes up and annoys the hellmout if me. Nit even my damn cat should belong to the damn daughter. Are not children a real bind?

Skweek1 Mon 05-Feb-18 10:46:26

A proper bathroom, with bubbly bath, shrlves for Radio/CD player, candles and books, lots of cupboard space and heated towel rail!

ReadyMeals Mon 05-Feb-18 11:02:49

I want a side extension off my kitchen to act as a porch and cloakroom. But I am conflicted because that is also my favorite place in the garden to sit (just out of the afternoon sun and near my back door) sad

annsixty Mon 05-Feb-18 11:04:15

I gave up my coat (and general bung it in) cupboard in the hall, for a downstairs shower room, we knocked through the downstairs loo so it is a decent size.
Now there are only the two us it might be nice to have the cupboard back. However soon neither of us will be able to climb in the bath so it is really vital.

Kim19 Mon 05-Feb-18 11:07:43

An additional bedroom above the garage would fulfil my husband's dream and therefore, mine.

annifrance Mon 05-Feb-18 11:10:10

A walk in larder with meat safe on an outside wall with mesh window.

A walk in china cupboard

Larger studio so cutting table can be in there instead of on the dining room table

Downstairs loo and shower.

Utility room

When we finally get enough money to convert the third barn.

But this has to come after the smokery, boule piste, compostable loo by the pool, summer kitchen, winter sitting area, greenhouse, potting shed, yet another tractor/lawnmower shed, improvements to the snail farm, car port, extra log storage. This is according to OH who you may realise likes to work outside!

W11girl Mon 05-Feb-18 11:10:14

I would like a conservatory but there is no physical space so I put French doors in the dining room which leads out onto the back garden....it’s an ok space to sit on wet days!

Jan51 Mon 05-Feb-18 11:19:57

A room to sit and knit or crochet and listen to what I want on the radio without interruptions. DH spends the afternoon sitting in the lounge watching tv and I sit in the back room doing crafts or reading but he has to come through the back room to go to the bathroom (and as he takes diuretics at lunch time that can be more than once an hour sometimes) and always has to question what I'm listening to or start telling me what he's been watching. Drives me mad.

grandtanteJE65 Mon 05-Feb-18 11:24:29

We have a utility room and a pantry, but I would like a guest bedroom, we can only put guests up on an airbed in my study, all right for the younger generation, but not really suitable for our own age group.

moobox Mon 05-Feb-18 11:30:56

Our downstairs loo is accessed through a tiny utility room so an independent one of either would do

annodomini Mon 05-Feb-18 11:31:31

A utility room would be a huge asset but there's not much room for expansion in my end-of-terrace house. The only expansion would be up into the roof and that would hardly answer the lack of utility problem!

ReadyMeals Mon 05-Feb-18 11:32:45

grandtante, do you not have room for one of those folding beds? You can get reasonably comfortable ones for a bit more expense and at least it's a bit higher than the typical airbed

Saggi Mon 05-Feb-18 11:36:18

A downstairs loo/shower room would be great...I’m having to rip my upstairs bathroom out to accommodate my husbands disability in not being able to use shower over bath anymore ... I’m having a shower room fitted instead. I hate the thought of no more baths especially as I get great relief for my bad back soaking in one. I’ll miss it. So shower room downstairs please !!

sweetcakes Mon 05-Feb-18 11:39:14

A downstairs loo/utility room it would make my life easier ?